Quotes About Heritage

This will always be a nation of immigrants. It is the one common trait we all share.

I am proud to be Chinese, and I do not tolerate any traitor.

If you want someone to call you a traitor or accuse you of hating Britain, try suggesting that Britain is a normal nation or that our history is remarkable but not exceptional.

In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.

When I go to Brazil, I feel like an American, and in the U.S., I always notice the traits that make me Brazilian.

Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and gifts.

I see traits of my body in my mother and grandmother, and it makes me proud. This shape isn't going anywhere.

I always think to myself that if I was able to transition from lucha libre style to American style, then I can always go back. You never lose your roots.

To be able to come back to Nigeria and get so much love for my work is my biggest life blessing. I've always hoped to never get lost in translation with me being British-born.

I remember what it was like when my parents couldn't help me with my homework because they couldn't speak the language, or being a translator for my parents. I did that a lot.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

You know you're an Arizona native when you take rain dances seriously.

I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.

Lineage serves as a crucial safeguard: It maintains the authenticity and purity of the teaching.

I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

May all future lairds of Clan MacLarin live out their days knowing they are marked to love, but not to live. Until a laird of the MacLarin line lives to see his firstborn draw breath, this curse shall never be broken.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

it is better to study a tradition as near to its roots as possible in order to gain a competent and confident understanding of its practices.

A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground.

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.